Chapter 38 End-of-Life Care
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Chapter 38
End-of-Life Care
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Question
•Is the following statement true or false?
Acceptance occurs while clients deal with their losses and are completing unfinished business.
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Answer
False.
Acceptance occurs after clients have dealt with their losses and completed unfinished business.
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Terminal Illness and Care• Terminal illness: recovery from the condition
is beyond reasonable expectations• Stages of dying
– Denial: psychological defense mechanism; refusal to believe certain information; helps to cope with reality of death
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Stages of dying (cont’d)
– Anger: emotional response to feeling victimized; occurs because there is no way to retaliate against fate
– Bargaining: psychological mechanism to delay the inevitable
– Depression: sad mood; realization that death will come sooner rather than later
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Stages of dying (cont’d)
– Acceptance: attitude of complacency that occurs after clients have dealt with their losses
• Promoting acceptance: nurses can help client to pass from one stage to another by providing emotional support and supporting client’s choice regarding terminal care
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Stages of Dying
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Promoting acceptance (cont’d)
– Emotional support: part of missing nursing care; more necessary for dying clients
– Arrangements for care: respecting the rights of dying clients
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Helping Dying Clients Cope
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Arrangements for care (cont’d)
– Home careo Respite care: relief for the caregiver by a
surrogate– Hospice care
o Eligibility for hospice care: 6 months or less to live
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The Dying Person’s Bill of Rights
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Question
•Is the following statement true or false?
In home care, the focus of support may shift back and forth from the client to the caregiver.
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AnswerTrue.
In home care, the focus of support may shift back and forth from the client to the caregiver.
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)
• Arrangements for care (cont’d)
– Hospice care (cont’d)
o Hospice services: clients receive care in their own homes; multidisciplinary team of hospice professionals and volunteer support are provided
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Medicare Home Hospice Benefits
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)
• Arrangements for care (cont’d)– Terminating hospice care
o Residential care: form of intermediate care
o Acute care: sophisticated technology and labor-intensive treatment
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Providing terminal care
– Hydration: maintenance of adequate fluid volume
– Nourishment: tube feeding and parenteral nutrition
– Elimination: catheterization; enemas or suppositories; skin care
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)
• Providing terminal care (cont’d)– Hygiene: clean, well groomed, and free
of unpleasant odors– Positioning: promote comfort and
circulation– Comfort: keep clients free from pain
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Family involvement: maintain family bonds
to help coping with future grief• Approaching death: decrease and ultimate
cessation of function– Multiple organ failure: two or more
organs cease to function– Family notification: family should be
aware of approaching death
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Signs of Multiple Organ Failure
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Summoning the Family of a Dying Client
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Question
•Is the following statement true or false?
Hospice services can be terminated if the client does not meet the Medicare criteria.
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Answer
True.
Hospice services can be terminated if the client does not meet the Medicare criteria.
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Family notification (cont’d)
– Meeting relatives to promote smooth transition
– Discussing organ donation
• Confirming death: determined on the basis that breathing and circulation have ceased
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Age Criteria for Organ Donation
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Confirming death (cont’d)
– Brain death: irreversible loss of function of the brain
– Death certificate– Permission for autopsy: examination of
organs and tissues of human body after death
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Organ Procurement Form
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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)
• Performing postmortem care: – Cleaning and preparing the body to
enhance its appearance during viewing at the funeral home
– Proper identification– Releasing the body to mortuary personnel
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Grieving • Process of feeling acute sorrow over a loss
• Pathologic grief: dysfunctional grief; refusing to accept the client’s death
• Resolution of grief: time taken for mourning; ability to talk about the dead person; controlling emotions
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Nursing Implications
• Many nursing diagnoses:
– Acute pain, fear, spiritual distress, social isolation, ineffective coping, decisional conflict, hopelessness, powerlessness, dysfunctional grieving, anticipatory grieving, caregiver role strain, death anxiety, and chronic sorrow
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General Gerontologic Considerations• Understand that the dying older client is a
living person who may want to maintain the same interpersonal relationships as someone who is not dying
• Encouraging older clients, who have experienced the death of a close friend or family member, to express feelings associated with grieving is important
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General Gerontologic Considerations (cont’d)
• Reading obituaries can be an effective coping mechanism in helping to develop a peaceful and accepting attitude toward death